Apple Watch may get built-in sleep tracking by 2020

Since its launch in 2015, Apple has increasingly positioned the Apple Watch as a health and fitness device. something that helps users track their training sessions and care for their body. But a popular feature is missing from Apple's built-in software: sleep detection.

Not much longer, says Bloomberg . The publication reports that Apple is testing the detection functionality, and if it meets standards, plans to add it to the Apple Watch by 2020.

You can follow all your sleep on the Apple Watch using third-party apps, but the device has always been disturbed in this regard by its relatively clever battery life. Apple promises users a full day's use of the watch before being charged overnight (and it often looks over two days of use, depending on usage), but it's not enough for regular sleep detection. Competitive fitness facilities with sleep detection such as the Fitbit Versa or Withings Steel Hybrid Smartwatch, for example, up to weeks before it is needed.

Bloomberg Mark Gurman points out that in order to make sleep detection functional for the Apple Watch, the company needs to increase its battery life or find a way to get sleep detection in a low power mode to wear. . Or, if charging speed increases, it can only ask users to upload their batteries in the morning.

With the tracking included in the Apple Watch, the company will increase its range of health tracking features, now including everything from electrocardiograms (added in the Apple Watch Series 4) to automatic workout detection (added in watchOS 5). Adding sleep tracking to this bundle is another reason not to take the Apple Watch out of your wrist.